<p>Thanks, I hadn’t thought about how “summer melt” might necessitate multiple rounds from the waitlist, even if the numbers right now look like the class is finalized. </p>
<p>We’ll take your advice and get off this forum and on with our lives!</p>
<p>Dan, I really appreciate that you always take the time to answer peoples’ questions on forums like these! It’s really a lot of help!</p>
<p>But in all honesty, does it look like Tufts will go to its waitlist this year solely based on the number of accepted students that sent their deposits? (not based on summer melt)</p>
<p>Thanks dan!</p>
<p>Dear Dan, </p>
<p>Thanks for your informative posts!</p>
<p>At this point, the admission office should already have a clear idea as to whether or not additional offers of admission can be extended to wait-listed students (based on the yield)… could you at least give us a Yes or No to this question?</p>
<p>Also, how does WL acceptance work at Tufts? You said in your post that Tufts would be happy to take any of the applicants on the waitlist if we end up with room… so does this mean that Tufts wouldnt necessarily look for another star athlete on the wait list just because a basketball player declines an admission offer from Tufts? (Or, if the enrolled students are 52% male and 48% female, would Tufts try to take more girls from the WL?)</p>
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I cannot. I’m sensitive to how badly you want to know, and the feeling of purgatory the waitlist can induce. However, my place and purpose on CC isn’t to provide insider info, but to provide the context and information that demystifies the admissions process and allows for better applications. Believe me, if we knew for sure we weren’t going to use the waitlist, we would have already released our waitlist candidates. I’m happy to explain how we use the waitlist and why, but I can’t offer more than that. </p>
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Very astute. Often, though not always, waitlist decisions end up being about demographics. Enough Engineers? Enough Women? Enough football players? Enough socio-economic diversity? Those kinds of questions. Because we’re generally excited about the prospect of any waitlist candidate joining us at Tufts, we make the decisions with different emphases. This is among the reasons I urge students not to think of the waitlist as a new round of admissions - once you’ve sent back the waitlist card, you’ve basically done all you can.</p>
<p>my waiting list experience with Tufts:</p>
<p>There was no word about any wait list movement/updates until sometime in June. Around that time, I was offered a place on the “extended” summer Waiting List; the rest of the candidates were released. I am not sure if Tufts still keeps this summer Waiting List, but I was informed that only a small number of students received this offer and it was binding; if you were taken off of the list, you had to enroll.</p>
<p>That year, I was eventually told that Tufts did not utilize the waiting list and the “extended” candidates were released around mid-August. </p>
<p>It is great to be optimistic and hopeful, but we also need to be real. Of course there could be a chance that this year could be the year where Tufts utilizes the waiting list, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.</p>
<p>I second blackbook here. I seriously doubt that anyone will be taken off the waitlist this year. We’ve trended on the side of over-enrollment recently.</p>
<p>To my fellow waitlistees, I was browsing through wait-list threads and unfortunately found this piece of information from the thread of schools not going to the wait-list on the Parents Forum. I guess Tufts is likely to have either very very limited wait-list this year or none at all. </p>
<p>“Son WL’ed at Tufts. Admissions counselor e-mailed him yesterday and said “highly unlikely” they will be going to their waitlist this year. Accepting a smalled frosh class and it’s already filled. Very unhappy since mom is a tufts graduate. Guess it’s off to BC in the fall.”</p>
<p>anyone had any updates on the waitlist? anyone let go yet?</p>
<p>Nope. Probably won’t be. Some writer for the Daily actually reported in the Commencement special issue that the waitlist wouldn’t be used this year, apparently based on extrapolations she made from remarks admissions officers made in interviews, but writing as if it were official, announced policy. It was a dick thing to do, but in all likelihood she’s right.</p>
<p>Never saw that used as an adjective before! But then, I am old…
S2 was disappointed to be rejected this spring - had hoped at least to make the waitlist. Now am actually relieved that didn’t happen and he was able to transfer affection to his other choices fairly quickly. Hope all of you who were waiting end up at schools that will be wonderful for you.</p>
<p>Today, I got a letter saying that Tufts freshman class is full, and the waiting list is closed. Unfortunately, I wasn’t extended admission. Best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Bump! To those of you disappointed by a waitlist offer, and who plan to accept a space on the Waitlist, perhaps this thread from last year will be of some help.</p>
<p>do you have any numbers on how many were waitlisted last year? and if any were taken off?</p>
<p>I thank you very much for this information, and second Swirley’s request.</p>
<p>Read the thread, please. This question was asked last year (several times), and you’ll notice consistency regarding my response.</p>
<p>In case anyone else is in this circumstance, I’ll ask on this thread:</p>
<p>Is there any sense in remaining on the wait-list if the student is intending to defer enrollment a year? On the one hand, my kid has all the time in the world to make a final decision on a school; but on the other hand, I get the sense the wait list is specifically to fill spots that are unexpectedly open for THIS fall’s class.</p>
<p>Unusual question - and your instinct is correct. </p>
<p>In the event your daughter is still extra keen on Tufts - I would welcome her to apply again for 2012, though I can understand not wanting to go through the admissions process again. Lee (our dean) means it when he says a Waitlist means we liked her application; reapplying would not be a futile gesture.</p>
<p>I once interviewed a Tufts applicant who’d been wait-listed the year before. His senior year applications had taken a buckshot approach, and he wasn’t too happy with his results. So he took a gap year, did some interesting things, and focused more carefully on a couple of the wait-list schools. He ended up applying ED to Tufts and was admitted.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted this year to Tufts and I am completely heartbroken. I would LOVE to go to Tufts, but I don’t know what my chances are of getting in off the waitlist. Is there anything that I can do to possibly help my chances of getting off the waitlist? I regret not doing the optional essay portion of the supplement and now have an essay that I didn’t have before that I would’ve like to submit. Can I send it to the admissions office?
Also, would you recommend visiting Tufts once again (I’ve already visited it once over the summer, which is when I fell in love) to show my commitment?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>On both counts, those things are unnecessary and unlikely to impact on whether you’d come off the Waitlist. </p>
<p>Please do not think of the waitlist as a second round of admission. You don’t have to prove to us that you are deserving of being at Tufts - we already believe that to be the case. The waitlist is only offered to applicants we really liked, so I can promise that if you were offered a spot on the waitlist, there isn’t anything “wrong” with your application that you need to fix. </p>
<p>Send in the waitlist confirmation, write a short note making clear the level of your interest in Tufts, and then it’s ok to move on knowing that you’ve done all that you can.</p>